Break open those piggy banks as Tiki Oasis is going to be a day of Tiki shopping that can only be described as pure BLISS!

Below is a list of vendors. I hope I have everyone on here ... missing? E-mail us at otto@tikinews.comThis is going to an amazing time to splurge!

Remember to bring cash-o-la as vendors will not be set-up for credit cards (as far as I know!). I didn't list WHAT everyone is selling but it pretty much covers ALL your needs from tiki bars, t-shirts, vintage clothing, barware, kids clothing, original artwork, tiki mugs, shoes, hand carved tikis, big tikis, small tikis... the list goes on!

Tiki News will also be selling a *limited* edition Tiki Oasis IV Mug made by MunkTiki on Friday night after the bandsfrom 10-11pm and during the daytime from 11:30-3pm. Sooo look for the Tiki News itty bitty table.

Extra SMOOCHES from Otto and Baby Doe goes out to Holden from Tiki Farm for volunteering to be our being our BRILLANT vendor coordinator! XOXO

Kent will be there.....he's the guy who did some art for Gecko's website (the gecko carving the Tiki). I will post some of his stuff for him on Creating Tiki as he is busy creating and trying to get his website up.

On 2004-04-25 16:57, Monkeyman wrote:
I recently (like TODAY) purchased a lot of vintage aloha shirts with the sole intent of bringing them to the oasis to help a few TCers get decked out in the preferred uniform. Unfortunately, I did not decide to do this until all the vendor space was sold out (I dont really have that much product anyway)

I will bring this lot of shirts with me and if any of your are interested in trying something on and buying one, just let me know and we can coordinate a time. I am pricing them all at $20 each.

"NO vending should take place in any of the Caliente Tropics rooms. We feel that it really takes away from the special marketplace and it isn't really fair to vendors who have paid money to have a vending space. Please be respectful of this.

Cheers! "

These are all mens shirts and range in size from Medium to XL.

Most of them are barkcloth and all are vintage. Ui Mai Kai, Don Loper, Sears, Pomare Tahiti, Iolani and more.

The POINT IS........Vend out of your room (or anywhere else on the property) and YOU ARE RIPPING OFF all 30 of the Vendors!! THINK about it. The "Secret Tiki Oasis Vending Police" are onto you!!

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This is what I get out of the above. He sells out of his room so, that's minus 80.00 for vending space that everyone else who is vending, pays. Then he sells 25 shirts at 20.00 each. That's 500.00. So, That's 500.00 that won't be spent on the vendors' area. Catch my drift?? So, let's say you aka vendor rents a space, for 80.00, and you sell 80.00 worth of stuff. You say, well, I broke even. Well, actually, you would've been ahead 16.67 (split between all the vendors if that 500.00 were to be spent in the VENDORS AREA). And Sixteen Dollars and Sixty Seven Cents would be at least 2 killer cocktails at the REEF for all YOUR HARD WORK. So, while we all sit outside he sits in A/C and makes 500.00 or 16.67 out of our pockets!

I have decided to pull back from vending and help Otto w/the running the vendor area as it's become a pretty major task! I am "your official vendor area" supervisor so as to take some of the heat off of Otto. Once a tiki grunt, always... blah blah. Anyways, I've got 12 new products that I am launching and to organize & supervise the vendor area for Otto (I already promised to do so some time ago) and launch my products... no way that's gonna happen together! Ultimately, the bottom line...
MORE MAI TAIS FOR ME!!!
Mahaloz!
Holden

We will be offering an assortment of TikiFarm mugs at the M Modern Gallery that weekend as we always do. We will also have some of the mugs available from the "It's All About the Tiki" show we did with Holden in late November.

Please remember to vistit the opening of our "I Dream of Tiki" show on Saturday May 8th from 3 - 6 pm. We timed this specifically to limit the impact on the rest of the Tiki Oasis events scheduled for that evening.

"I Dream of Tiki" is a group Tiki show featuring work from the likes of Shag, Mark Ryden, Bosko, Bamboo Ben, Crazy Al, Joe and Donella Vitale, Drew Brophy and many other artists from the fine art world you have no doubt heard of. Please look for our upcoming post in this section within the next few days for further details on the show.

M Modern Gallery is a proud sponsor of the Tiki Oasis IV. Everybody please drive safe!

We will only sell these for *limited* time at the event due to not having the man-power to sell them all weekend.

Friday night after the bands from 10-11pm (hey we are the organizers -- we can vend before others!) and Saturday afternoon from 11:30-3:30 at the side gate. Look for a very small Tiki News table.

For those who wanted to vend out of a room here are my suggestions:

1. If you are NOT staying at the Tropics then tell everyone that you will be selling stuff out of your non-Tropics room at a particular time and have people pop by to check them out! Maybe on Saturday or Sunday morning?

2. Make a little flyer to pass out letting people know about what you want to sell and then place photos online for folks to see and order from you directly from you at a future date. That would mean you don't have to deal withselling stuff that weekend but you could get the ball a rollin' for future orders.

Selling out of your Tropics rooms is very naughty! Those who do this will be spanked (maybe by Bamboo Ben?!)!